All the election coverage is freaking me out. I needed a break. Here's the inspiration.
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10/31/2010
10/30/2010
10/29/2010
Politics: Neon, Sex & Drugs
I got into politics once. I mean I got into a political campaign from start to finish. In Boise Idaho. Yeah? It is not as small as you think. At the time, metro population was around a half million and Boise proper was 160K. This was almost 40 years ago.
I was on my 'starter marriage'. Well enough 'into it' that both of us were very much interested in 'swinging'. Boise wasn't as small as you might think then, but it was small enough that it had never ever seen a XXX bookstore. One opened after much protest. We went 'shopping'.
At the front of the store was a bulletin board with 'ads'. There were a few 'suggestive ads' but nothing substantially up to my standards - sounded like a bunch of old geezers. I inquired of the the 'lady' behind the counter about this. I hesitantly leaned across a well-lit glass counter filled with dildos and vibrators to do so
She was truly what comes to mind when 'buxom' comes to mind. Just a bit older than us. She said they had a 'special' listing of such behind the counter - so as to not get anyone in trouble. Trouble was an issue because the city fathers had been trying to get rid of that bookstore since before it opened.
She gave us a couple of phone numbers, including her own. To tell you the truth, she was so well endowed and blaise, she scared me. So my wife and I visited several others before winding up there. With her and her husband. Being married is very important when swinging.
Turns out her husband grew up on the south side of Chicago during the Depression, smoked grass at 12, got out of Joliet before he was 30 and had been a pimp since. Do the math. He was a very cool dude. And his stable lived downstairs in a huge basement apartment and spent all their off time upstairs in their nighties.
His wife, the buxom human unit, oversaw all the girls and kept them in line like a drill sargeant. She also cooked and cleaned house like any other 'housewife'. The old man sat in his easy chair and took it all in. He had a nephew who hung out there. But not too much because that environment would drive any man insane.
Morgan was his name. I remember that much. He was closer to my age. Just moved to Boise from Chicago. Wanted to make a name for himself. Partying never got in the way of that, with him. Morgan got into the mayoral campaign of a local news broadcaster who was beloved.
I spent a lot of time over at that house for obvious reasons, and in our stoned out conversations, Morgan got me fired up about this campaign. Not because the guy was worth a shit - because there'd be juice at the end. I was a hick. I hadn't even been to New York City yet. I bit.
I walked the streets and knocked on doors. I helped plant signs. I stood outside stores and took down names. I called all my friends and asked them to help. I went to meetings. My wife? Who knows? I was attending meetings. Of course, after the meeting, Morgan and I would wind up at his Uncle's house.
After all that - I think it lasted about 4 months (I have no way of knowing for sure due to pharmacalogically induced long and short term memory loss) - it was ELECTION DAY. The candidate rented a suite at the local Rodeway Inn. Had a fireplace and everything! I was impressed. The press was there. The 'girls' weren't.
He lost. The moral of this story is this. I met a dope-smoking pimp, who had a very shady nephew, in a whorehouse filled with hookers, who steered me into participating in politics ... which I did for purely prurient reasons. Be sure and vote next Tuesday - the future depends on it.
10/28/2010
10/27/2010
ROUGH ROAD AHEAD!
When I turned on the computer this morning I was shocked. I expected fraud on an as yet unknown scale, but I was not prepared for what is already happening a week before the elections. I realized then that the news is going to move so much faster over the next week that my usual format is not up to the task. With that in mind, I decided to alter my postings to better reflect the frenzied pace of what's to come. I decided to surf as I normally do, but instead of saving up links until I have enough for a post, it would be better if I narrow my focus and try to run an item by item commentary as they come to my attention. So, as I surf and find things I'll immediately drop them here with a brief word or two and not bother to create images to suit - unless something screams out and warrants it. This decision forced me to come up with an image to cover all those entries. I spent the better part of the day creating that image. Doing so also let me hide in my thoughts because that intial shock so startled me - if this election collapses into a cesspool of local fraud I don't know what'll happen. I don't think regular citizens will stand for it though it certainly appears like that is exactly what's about to occur. It is going to be a rough road ahead this coming week and probably won't improve for months to come due to litigation and a feeding frenzy of lawsuits from every direction. What this means practically is that this post will remain on top until next Wednesday.
Stay tuned ...
10/25/2010
10/24/2010
666 MotB UPDATE!
Whoa! The Pew Research Center just released a lenghthy comparison between the election cycle profiles of 2006 and this year. It is startling to say the least. It is a .pdf file and the file number just happened to be '666' - I couldn't resist the temptation. The Democrats just got a postcard from Hell. Read it here.
Depending on your politics - it will warm the cockles of your heart or chill you to the bone.
UPDATE!!!
THIS just in - average credit score is now 666.
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